Example sentences of "would have [verb] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were consistent the government would have to view these variations too as evidence of inefficiency . |
| 2 | In contrast , graduated tails would have constituted uncheatable handicaps even in their simplest form , and so are more likely to have evolved as reliable indicators of the viability of potential mates . |
| 3 | ‘ He would have felt three times as virtuous , ’ I said , and the barman looked at me blankly . |
| 4 | Naturally , my father would have felt this loss keenly ; but to make matters worse the usual comfort a father has in these situations — that is , the notion that his son gave his life gloriously for king and country — was sullied by the fact that my brother had perished in a particularly infamous manoeuvre . |
| 5 | Quantum theory implies that it would have to move 207 times closer to the central proton to maintain the stability of the atom . |
| 6 | As Punch would have said many years ago , ‘ collapse of Stout Party ’ . |
| 7 | The judges in that case would have answered that question quickly in the negative , for obviously other judges were not all agreed in either direction . |
| 8 | He also felt that the level of PCBs required to kill a dolphin would have affected other species also . |
| 9 | Dalgliesh said : ‘ Agnes Poley would have understood that atmosphere too . |
| 10 | There being 3,813 papers showing a second preference for Craig in our North Antrim constituency , the formula would have given him ( 5,626 + 14,533 ) x 3,813 = 1,476 additional votes , and other candidates would have received additional votes similarly calculated . |
| 11 | ‘ If this had been a Serbian place you would have sent 500 troops here , I guarantee it , ’ Mr Delimustafic said . |
| 12 | If words were represented as fairly abstract morphemic forms a speech recognition system of the conventional matching type would have to derive these forms somehow from the acoustic input by the application of phonological rules in reverse . |
| 13 | And I would have bested those blighters eventually , you know . ’ |
| 14 | Hemingway had previously covered the war for the Toronto Star and , although based in Paris at the time , would have followed these events closely . |
| 15 | WHY is it that whenever I decide to don salopettes and head off in search of that damned elusive substance — Scottish snow — howling hurricanes decide to renew my acquaintance and pea-soupers that would have done Victorian London proud descend on the mountain ? |
| 16 | There is no doubt that Trodd would have done some things differently , or at least struggled hard to get them changed . |
| 17 | Like our poor parliamentary candidate , I would have no chance of being elected , but it would be a beginning , though perhaps one I would have despised several years earlier when I looked down on parish-pump politics and intended to be the first woman prime minister . |
| 18 | But if it were if it were to be slashed or erm you know and er on Monday evening we would have to get a screen we would have to replace that screen immediately . |
| 19 | I grumbled because I would have to remain several days more without Pinard . |
| 20 | Conversely had we had the profits last year which would have generated taxable profits then we would n't have needed to have done that , so that 's one reason why it was not disclosed on floatations at the time and floatation was not regarded as an asset . |
| 21 | Now do you think that the campaign th the th , the campaigns against the use in cosmetic testing had anything to do with the changes that were brought in , or do you think advances and responsible er science would have , would have made those changes anyway ? |
| 22 | I think it was all in Kenneth 's mind and I think Kenneth 's hang-up about his backside and his obsession with cleanliness would have made physical love very difficult for him . ’ |
| 23 | For example , when price inflation was running at about 12 per cent last summer , buying on HP would have meant monthly payments about 10 per cent higher than those needed to save up and buy the same thing later . |
| 24 | Perhaps you and I would have spent more time together . |
| 25 | If I had followed a different route through Bradford or Brixton the complexion of this story would have transformed some of its objectives : whiteness and blackness would have encountered each other dramatically . |
| 26 | She , Madeleine , would have to buy some clothes there once it opened . |
| 27 | If he really had left his boat in the cove round the point , he would have to come this way again , and I would certainly be able to see if he brought anything with him . |
| 28 | The story would have sunk most politicians yet , six months later , Mr Yeltsin is the front runner for the post of president of the Russian federation — a post which , according to the logic of Mr Gorbachev 's decentralising reforms , will become the second most important in the country . |
| 29 | The same with the signalmen , I would go up to the signalman and tell him , Well on the other shift you know , they would have left that train away first , before they left that other one in you see . |
| 30 | ‘ Are you going to join us ? ’ invited Eleanor , with a smile that would have charmed most men right into the palm of her hand . |